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2003 Drama TV Movie 1h 31m

Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story

"He divided a city. He united a nation."

Biographic movie of the witty, overachieving, hot-tempered Rudy Giuliani, spanning from his rising days as a New York district attorney in the early 1980s to his marriage to part-time actress Donna Hanover, to his candidacy for mayor of New York City and his controversial methods to tackle the city's crime and urban problems, as well as his romance with his assistant Cristyne Lategano which lead to the failure of his marriage, to his battle with prostate cancer, all leading up to the terrible day of September 11, 2001 which Guiliani himself narrowly escaped death after suicide terrorists hijacked and crashed two passenger airliners into the twin World Trade Center towers leading to their collapse in which Guiliani's toughness and spirited personality help calm the city's residents to face the chaos on that day which made him a national hero.

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Principal Cast

James Woods

Rudy Giuliani

Penelope Ann Miller

Donna Hanover

Michelle Nolden

Cristyne Lategano

John Bourgeois

Peter Powers

Kirsten Bishop

Judith Nathan

Mark Camacho

Tony Carbonetti

Maxim Roy

Beth Petrone

Mariah Inger

Carrie Foster

Sam Stone

Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik

Brian Wrench

Bill Simon

Alan Fawcett

FDNY Commissioner Peter Gand

Alan Fawcett

FDNY Chief Peter Gand

Philip Pretten

FDNY Commissioner Thomas Van Essen

Philip Spensley

Howard Safir

Francis X. McCarthy

Jim Kossler

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